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To: Cronos

Sorry, not only I am not expert in the identification of races to ague, e.g., are South Indians a distinct race or a mixed-race people; but, the structure of your sentence is very complex. As I count the races you have identified:

1. Negroid
2. Caucasians (2a Europeans, 2b North Africans, 2c Semites [Jews and Arabs], 2d Indo-Iranians and Draodians)
3. Aborigines with a misplaced close-parenthesis
4. Malay-Polynesian
5. Mongoloid
6. Koi san (Bantu people of Southern Africa)

I don’t know where you would place the original people of the Americas. (#5?) Do you really mean to lump Mediterranean Europeans in with Northern Europeans? What about Laplanders and Magyars and Finns? (#2a?) And, what about Papuans? (#4?)

My point is that adaptation to local conditions resulted in the what are called the races. But, modern technologies has made race obsolete. Any set of human genes described as a race or sub race or mixture of races is just as good as any other set for inhabiting anyplace on the planet. If there ever was any truth to the argument for a master race, it was that because of survival of the fittest each race was the master race of its locality. For example, African people were the master race of Africa.


69 posted on 03/26/2015 10:17:01 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever
Hi -- sorry, was typing that on a phone

What I meant was:

  1. Negroid (Bantu-speakers)
  2. Caucasians
    1. Indo-Europeans/Aryans (Indians, Iranis, Europeans)
    2. Semites (Arabs, Jews
    3. Berbers + Egyptians
    4. Dravidians
    5. Aborigines and Papua new Guineans (yes, surprisingly, they are Caucasians)
  3. Malay-Polynesians (Filipinos, Mays, Indonesians, Polynesians)
  4. Khoi-San --> NOTE: these are NOT Bantu people, in fact they are probably the most genetically different from other people
  5. Mongoloid including Native Americans

Yes, Mediterranean peoples + Northern Europeans are genetically similar, as they are to Berbers. The Europeans are by and large Aryanic peoples -- perhaps with the exception of Magyar and Estonian and Saami who I think are more related to Mongoloid but have intermingled heavily with Caucasians

Papuans are Caucasians

I believe that Pygnmies in Africa form another race, but I'm not sure about that

"races" - I would see that there is a clear separation between the Caucasians-Mongoloid and the Negroids over a period of time and by the Sahara desert (but the Kushans tend to spoil that theory).

Your idea of master race is correct for a period of time and dependent on technology -- Bantu speaking peoples were not the masters of the deep Congo -- the pygmies were, until Bantu peoples developed advanced spears etc. Ditto for Khoi-san who were masters of the Kalahari until Bantu peoples with agriculture and animal husbandry came along.

And as for Europe, it was mostly forest until at least 700 BC. The pre-Celtic peoples of the British Isles and Hispania I don't know who they were, but they were tiny numbers of people who were outnumbered by the peoples coming of the east with the development of agriculture and the creation of spoke-wheeled chariots

76 posted on 03/26/2015 1:18:46 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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